Mail-order-house order-blank



1. l. LuBlN. MAIL ORDER Hobse oRoER BLANK.

APPLICATION FILED IAN. I8. 1918.

Patented oct. 7,1919.

IN VEN TOR.

A TTORNE YS JESS I. LUBIN, F SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA.

MAIL-ommRfHoUsE ORDERFBLANK To all whom z' may concern Be it lmown that I, JESS I. -LUBIN, a

' citizen of the United States, residingv at Sacramento, in the county of Sacramento and State of California, have invented new vand useful Improvemenftsin MailsOrder- House Order-Blanks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a mail order house order blank. A Itis the principal object of this invention to provide an order blank which is particu-l larly adapted for use by mail o-rder houses Y with other means whereby a memorandum .A of the variousitems ordered may be -sepal -rated to be attached to department sales and to be furnished the customers, and is provided with means for supplying the mail order house with aself-addressed label and checks and directly forwarded to the departy ment'concerned for filling,

In carrying out the present invention I provide duplicate order blanks which are appropriatelyruled and designated. The

upper ofthese blanks, or the original, formed with a carbonized backing, whereby the indicia will 'be transferred to the second blank, which blank is formed with a series `of fields vdivided 'by pe-rforations, so that the different parts of the duplicate sheet may be removed and applied C,to rthe address label of the package forwarded to the customer and the others to department sales checks, the

back of the second blank being gummed f'or this purposesA Referring more particularly to the drawings by Way of exam le:

'Figure 1 is a view 1n plan, illustrating the i. first sheet of the order blank and further 40 indicating its carbonized backing.

Fig. 2- is a view in plan, illustrating the second sheet of the .order blank, with one of its corners upturned to indicate its gummed backing.

Referring to the drawings, 10 and 11 indi- Afcate sheets of'paper, equal in size and integrally connected along one edge, and from which first and second order blanks are formed. Both of the blanks are provided with a suitably lined field, betweenlthe lines of which the articles ordered may be designated, as well as descriptive matter and prices. As indicated upon the iirst sheet 10, a division is made, indicated by the letter A, in whichthecatalogue number may be' written; B is a column in which the .quality Speciication of Letters Patent.

Patented Octd?, 1919.

Application 1ed January 18, 1918. Serial4 No. 212,396.

of the article .and the number of articles may be indicated; and C is a column within which the color of the articles is indicated.,-

A large column is D which provides for .the

quantity of the article. Following this column are columns E and F within which the price of separate articles and the total cost are written. At the right-hand of the coli umn F is a blank column Within which suitable memorandamayv be made by the order clerk.

Referring to Fig. 2, it will be seen that the carbonized lback of sheet l0 will transfer all.

of this indicia to 'corresponding columns on the second sheet l1. The different items upon this sheet, however, Gare separated by perforated lines 12 which extend the width of the blank. Due to this arrangement the various items may be torn from Athe blank .and separated from each other so that they may be fixed by their gummed back to dep partment sales checks, thuseliminating transcription as is now the practice.

Ilhe field above the columns previously described is provided for shipping memoranda. On the first sheet l0 the customer writes hisor her name, post-oilice and other data which would be necessary in supplying I a correct address.- These notations are transferred to 'a label field 13 circumscribed by a perforated linewhich allows the field to be torn from the second sheet 11 and used as a return address label when the order has been lled and a package made. Due to this arrangement, it be seen that the customer addresses the package and mistakes which might larise from copyinothe address by the shipping clerk are thus o viated.

In the use ofthis device, the order blanks Vare made up attached to the duplicate sheet 11 and are supplied the customer who `there after lls in the order in the columns designated A', B50, D, E, and Fand the address in the upper eld 14. The two sheets are held together preferably along their upper marginal edge andare then forwarded to the mail order house. Upon receipt of the order, the clerk removesthe upper order sheet, which comprises a single continuous piece of paper, and Vthereafter separates the items written upon the second or duplicate ordersheet and pastes them by means ofthe gummed backing upon department sales checks, thus eliminating transcription which is now the universalpractice. The label 13 is held until the order is filled and the department sales checks. are forwarded to the 'various departments concerned. The items on each department sales 'check which may be collected from a number of Orders, are

' sent to the collecting department and are there segregated by the clerks as they have freferenc'e to the original intact order blanks 10 of the various customers. The packages are then made up and the self-addressed gummed labels 13 are applied thereto.

It will thus be seen that by the-use of order blanks of this character considerable time will be saved bythe clerks of the mail order house through the Velimination .of

transcriptionand accuracy will be insured, due to the fact that the package label will be addressed by the customer without having been -copied and, furthermore, due'to the fact that the various department clerks will be furnished with the exact items desired by the customer in the original handwriting. A further advantage is that clerks will no longer be required to copy the various items vfrom the orders upon thel and an order field are designated, the fields on one sheet being registrable with the corre sponding ields on the other sheet when said sheets are relatively superposed, a carbon backing upon the upper of said sheets,-

whereby the indicia therefrom may be transferred to the sheet beneath, perforated fields formed upon the second sheet, and a gummed backing upon said sheet, wherebythe fields may be separated along the lines of the perforation and applied to other sheets. 2. Anorder blank comprising a pair of order sheets adapted to be positioned, in

relatively superposed relation, an address` field indicated upon each of said sheets, a memoranda field indicated upon each of said sheets, the respective fields' of said sheets l duplicate sheets upon which an address field Y registering when the sheets are superposed one on the other, means whereby the inscriptions made within the fields of the upper sheet may be transferred to the corresponding fields of the under sheet, and perforated lines circumscribing the address field upon the under sheet and dividing the memoranda field of said sheet into individually separable memoranda pieces.

In vtestimony whereof l have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

'JESS E LU'BIN.

Witnesses f SILvEs PEARLE TINSLER, R. J. A'rcHisoN. 

